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Othello. In imitation of the earnest and forthright general, Iago
hotted up his own image and wore his heart on his sleeve, until
General Othello read him loud and clear as “honest Iago,” a
man after his own grimly earnest heart.
Throughout The City in History , Lewis Mumford favors the
cool or casually structured towns over the hot and intensely
filled-in cities. The great period of Athens, he feels, was one
during which most of the democratic habits of village life and
participation still obtained. Then burst forth the full variety of
human expression and exploration such as was later impossible
in highly developed urban centres. For the highly developed
situation is, by definition, low in opportunities of participation,
and rigorous in its demands of specialist fragmentation from
those who would control it. For example, what is known as “job
enlargement” today in business and in management consists in